MIPI 2023 Challenge on Nighttime Flare Removal: Methods and Results
This addresses the problem of improving mobile photography quality by removing nighttime flares, but it is incremental as it builds on existing challenge frameworks and datasets.
The paper summarizes the MIPI 2023 Challenge on Nighttime Flare Removal, where 120 participants registered and 11 teams submitted solutions that achieved state-of-the-art performance in removing flares from nighttime images.
Developing and integrating advanced image sensors with novel algorithms in camera systems are prevalent with the increasing demand for computational photography and imaging on mobile platforms. However, the lack of high-quality data for research and the rare opportunity for in-depth exchange of views from industry and academia constrain the development of mobile intelligent photography and imaging (MIPI). With the success of the 1st MIPI Workshop@ECCV 2022, we introduce the second MIPI challenge including four tracks focusing on novel image sensors and imaging algorithms. In this paper, we summarize and review the Nighttime Flare Removal track on MIPI 2023. In total, 120 participants were successfully registered, and 11 teams submitted results in the final testing phase. The developed solutions in this challenge achieved state-of-the-art performance on Nighttime Flare Removal. A detailed description of all models developed in this challenge is provided in this paper. More details of this challenge and the link to the dataset can be found at https://mipi-challenge.org/MIPI2023/ .